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SUMMARY:Unveiling Digitizing Vietnam: Sino-Vietnamese Studies in the Age of AI
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nPLEASE NOTE: For non-Columbia guests\, registration is required to access the Morningside campus 24 hours prior to the event. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 1:00 PM on Friday\, April 17 for campus access. \nThis special event will simultaneously unveil the full release of the Digitizing Vietnam multi-functional Digital Humanities (DH) Hub and AI platform\, as well as hold a series of critical workshops interfacing DH and AI specialists with experts in various disciplines of Vietnamese Studies in order to gauge need\, efficacy\, and limits of the field. Also included are major innovators in the Digital Humanities from the China and Southeast Asia fields\, both of which overlap significantly with Vietnamese Studies. Together\, these experts will engage in comparative dialogue as a means to foster future interdisciplinary and interregional collaboration. \nModerator: John D. Phan\, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Columbia University \nSpeakers: \n\n\nPeter Bol\, Harvard University \n\n\nHilde De Weerdt\, Hong Kong University Business School \n\n\nĐinh Điền\, Vietnam University of Science \n\n\nJudith Henchy\, University of Washington Seattle \n\n\nTrương Minh Hoà\, Fulbright University Vietnam \n\n\nTuấn Hoàng\, Pepperdine University \n\n\nLê Hoàng Phúc\, Columbia University \n\n\nLê Nguyễn Tường Vân\, Fulbright University Vietnam \n\n\nNagasaki Kiyonori\, Keio University \n\n\nCindy Nguyễn\, UCLA \n\n\nNguyễn Tuấn Cường\, Institute for Sino-Nôm Studies \n\n\nNguyễn Thị Phương Trâm\, Columbia University \n\n\nVirginia Shih\, UC Berkeley \n\n\nShimizu Masaaki\, Osaka University \n\n\nKwok-Leong Tang\, Harvard University \n\n\nLou Vargas\, École française d’Extrême-Orient \n\n\nEmily Zinger\, Cornell University \n\n\nVŨ Minh Hoàng\, Fulbright University Vietnam \n\n\nThis event is sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. \n\n\n\nContact Information\nHiba Rashid\nhr2577@columbia.edu\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER\n\n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/unveiling-digitizing-vietnam-sino-vietnamese-studies-in-the-age-of-ai/
LOCATION:523 Butler Library\, 535 West 114th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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SUMMARY:Everyday Economies of Survival: Gender in Cold War South Korea
DESCRIPTION:\n\nPLEASE NOTE: For non-Columbia guests\, registration is required to access the Morningside campus 24 hours prior to the event. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 12:00 PM on Sunday\, March 8 for campus access. \nNames will be submitted for QR codes 1-2 days prior to the event and subsequently reviewed. Registrants will receive an email from CU Guest Access with the QR code before or on the day of the event. \nSpeaker: Eunhee Park\, Postdoctoral Instructor\, Department of History\, University of Chicago \nModerator: Jungwon Kim\, King Sejong Associate Professor of Korean Studies\, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Columbia University \nEunhee Park is a historian of modern Korea and gender and a Postdoctoral Instructor in the History Department at the University of Chicago. Her research examines women’s everyday economic practices and domestic life in the context of Cold War capitalism. Her work has appeared in Gender & History and is forthcoming in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. She is currently completing a book manuscript on housewives’ financial authority and everyday economic governance in postwar South Korea. \nDr. Park will deliver her lecture\, Everyday Economies of Survival: Gender in Cold War South Korea remotely over Zoom on Monday\, April 20\, 2026 at 4PM ET. \nThis talk examines how South Korean housewives built everyday economies of survival amid the volatility of Cold War developmentalism. During the 1960s–1980s\, rapid industrialization and authoritarian developmental regimes transformed national economic structures while leaving many urban households facing chronic instability and recurring “extra-money need.” Drawing on women’s magazines\, financial archives\, film\, and oral histories\, I argue that housewives developed adaptive financial tactics that operated as a parallel infrastructure of credit\, liquidity\, and capital formation. \nThrough rotating credit associations (kye)\, covert money management\, household purse authority\, and monetized side work\, women translated economic uncertainty into calibrated sequences of payment\, strategic delay\, concealment\, and circulation. These practices were neither merely informal nor secondary to state-led development; they operated as what I call “purse capitalism”—a grounded form of household capital formation embedded in domestic life. \nBy tracing shifts from collective credit networks to the 1968 source-of-funds investigations and the 1993 Real-Name Financial Transaction System\, this talk reconsiders economic transformation from the household outward. Rather than portraying housewives as passive dependents or speculative actors\, it foregrounds their role in making credit\, governing liquidity\, and sustaining family survival under constraint. \nRegistration: \n\nTo attend this event in person\, please register HERE.\nTo attend this event online\, please register HERE.\n\n\n\n\nContact Information\nJunho Peter Yoon\njy3070@columbia.edu\n\n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/everyday-economies-of-survival-gender-in-cold-war-south-korea/
LOCATION:403 Kent Hall\, 1140 Amsterdam Ave.\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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SUMMARY:Defending Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War with China with Eyck Freymann
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nTaiwan is where the uneasy peace between the United States and China will be tested–and possibly broken. Beijing believes that “reunification” is inevitable. American military strength has preserved peace and stability for decades\, but its advantages are eroding. Beijing has found critical gaps in U.S. strategy and is working to squeeze\, isolate\, and coerce Taiwan into submission without firing a shot. If deterrence fails\, the consequences of a Taiwan crisis would be catastrophic–plunging the global economy into chaos\, shattering U.S. alliances\, and allowing China to dominate the region and reshape the world order. \nIn Defending Taiwan\, Eyck Freymann presents the first integrated strategy to deter war with China and preserve an honorable peace. Drawing on untranslated Chinese sources\, cutting-edge military and economic analysis\, and deep historical research\, Freymann argues that Washington’s deterrence strategy must extend beyond conventional military power and familiar threats of mutually assured destruction. America must work with allies to develop a bold new vision of technological and economic statecraft–and a plan to secure its interests if deterrence fails. Freymann examines China’s full range of strategic options. The United States can deter them all. But to do so\, it must integrate its military strength\, economic leverage\, technological leadership\, and diplomatic influence into a single\, coherent plan to prevent war. \n\nEyck Freymann is a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University\, where he directs the Allied Coordination Working Group. He is also a Non-Resident Research Fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy\, the Institute of Geoeconomics in Tokyo\, and the China Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College. \nDr. Freymann works on strategies to preserve peace and protect U.S. interests and values in an era of systemic competition with China. He is the author of several books\, including the forthcoming Defending Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War with China (Oxford\, 2026)\, The Arsenal of Democracy: Technology\, Industry\, and Deterrence in an Age of Hard Choices (Hoover\, 2025)\, and One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World (Harvard\, 2021). His scholarly work has appeared in The China Quarterly and is forthcoming in International Security. \nRegistration: \n\nIf you already have CUID / Campus access\, we look forward to hosting you for this event in-person. please go to: School of International and Public Affairs\, 420 West 118th Street\, Room 918\, New York\, NY 10027\nTo attend this event online\, please register HERE.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/defending-taiwan-a-strategy-to-prevent-war-with-china-with-eyck-freymann/
LOCATION:WEAI Conference Room (IAB 918)
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SUMMARY:Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nFor non-Columbia affiliates\, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00 pm on Apr. 22 for campus access. \nNames will be submitted for QR codes 1-2 days prior to the event. Registrants will receive an email from CU Guest Access with the QR code before or on the day of the event. NOTE: You cannot access campus using the QR code from Eventbrite. \nSpeaker: Yan Long\, Associate Professor of Sociology\, UC Berkeley \nModerator: Qin Gao\, Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice; Acting Director of the Asian American Initiative; Associate Dean for Doctoral Education; Director of China Center for Social Policy\, Columbia School of Social Work \nYan Long examines how China absorbed global health norms while remaking epidemic politics through its own authoritarian logics. Her talk highlights the interplay between digital statecraft\, bureaucratic control\, and transnational influences in shaping China’s pandemic response. The analysis draws on archival research\, interviews\, and fieldwork tracing China’s evolving epidemic governance across SARS\, AIDS\, and COVID-19. \nThis event is part of the 2025-2026 lecture series “COVID-19 Governance and Impacts: China from Comparative Perspectives.” The series will be part of the China COVID Project\, a multi-institutional\, interdisciplinary research initiative funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. It aims to spotlight new empirical and theoretical research that interrogates China’s post-COVID standing through social\, economic\, political\, and gender-based lenses. It features scholars working on governance\, public health\, digital statecraft\, labor\, gender\, and civil society responses in China and Asia. The series will foster public dialogue and contribute to documentation and analysis of the pandemic’s legacy. \nThis event is hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and cosponsored by the Columbia China Center for Social Policy. \nRegistration: \n\nTo attend this event in-person\, please register HERE.\nTo attend this event online\, please register HERE.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nContact Information\nJulie Kwan\njk4371@columbia.edu\n\n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/authoritarian-absorption-the-transnational-remaking-of-epidemic-politics-in-china/
LOCATION:WEAI Conference Room (IAB 918)
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SUMMARY:Practice Teaching (Microteaching) for Graduate Students (In-Person)
DESCRIPTION:\nLooking for a supportive place to try out instructional approaches? This Practice Teaching session (formerly known as “Microteaching”) will pair you with a trained peer facilitator and a group of 3-4 other graduate students. Together\, you and your fellow participants will take turns delivering short (<10 min.) samples of instruction to each other. After each teaching sample\, your facilitator and your peers will offer structured feedback to support your teaching. Whether you are currently teaching at Columbia or not\, all graduate students looking to practice teaching are welcome to attend this Practice Teaching session. \nSome teaching skills you could practice at this session include: \n– Introducing new content\, concepts\, or skills to students (i.e.\, an engaging mini-lecture) \n– Testing new and varied modes of student engagement to boost participation and inclusivity \n– Using of visuals (blackboard\, whiteboard\, slide decks\, handouts\, etc.) to bolster learning \n– Facilitating discussion (i.e.\, posing discussion questions\, monitoring student engagement\, attention\, and learning\, etc.) \nParticipants should determine which skill they wish to focus on and come prepared with something to teach their peers in an active and engaging way. Registrants will be provided additional guidance to help prepare for Practice Teaching in the week prior to the session. \nPractice Teaching sessions are facilitated by CTL’s trained graduate student Teaching Consultants. These sessions satisfy the “Application and Practice” requirement in the Teaching Development Program. \n\nColumbia University makes every effort to accommodate individuals with disabilities. Contact ColumbiaCTL@columbia.edu or 212.854.1692 for accommodations. \nThis event may be photographed. Note\, if this is an online event\, CTL staff may take screenshots. For concerns\, contact ColumbiaCTL@columbia.edu. \n\n\nEvent Contact Information: \nCenter for Teaching and Learning\nCTLgrads@columbia.edu\n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/practice-teaching-microteaching-for-graduate-students-in-person-12/
LOCATION:212 Butler Library\, 535 W 114th St\, New York\, NY\, 10027
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260423T160000
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SUMMARY:Lessons from COVID-19 for Chinese Governance and State-Society Relations
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nFor non-Columbia affiliates\, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00 pm on April 23 for campus access. \nNames will be submitted for QR codes 1-2 days prior to the event. Registrants will receive an email from CU Guest Access with the QR code before or on the day of the event. NOTE: You cannot access campus using the QR code from Eventbrite. \nSpeaker: Xueguang Zhou\, Professor in the Sociology Department\, Stanford University \nModerator: Qin Gao\, Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice; Acting Director of the Asian American Initiative; Associate Dean for Doctoral Education; Director of China Center for Social Policy\, Columbia School of Social Work \nXueguang Zhou analyzes organizational responses to the COVID-19 crisis in a comparative perspective and discusses how this episode sheds light on the key characteristics of governance in China\, particularly the relationship between mobilization capacity and institutional adaptability. His talk draws on his longstanding research on China’s bureaucracy and his reflections published during the pandemic. \nSpeaker’s Bio: Xueguang Zhou is a professor of sociology\, the Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Economic Development\, a senior fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies\, Stanford University. His book The Logic of Governance in China: An Organizational Approach (Cambridge University Press\, 2022) summarizes his decade-long research on the governance practice in contemporary China. His current research examines patterns of personnel flow in the Chinese bureaucracy and the historical evolution of the Chinese state. \nThis event is part of the 2025-2026 lecture series “COVID-19 Governance and Impacts: China from Comparative Perspectives.” The series will be part of the China COVID Project\, a multi-institutional\, interdisciplinary research initiative funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. It aims to spotlight new empirical and theoretical research that interrogates China’s post-COVID standing through social\, economic\, political\, and gender-based lenses. It features scholars working on governance\, public health\, digital statecraft\, labor\, gender\, and civil society responses in China and Asia. The series will foster public dialogue and contribute to documentation and analysis of the pandemic’s legacy. \nThis event is hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and cosponsored by the Columbia China Center for Social Policy. \nRegistration: \n\nTo attend this event in-person\, please register HERE.\nTo attend this event online\, please register HERE.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nContact Information\nJulie Kwan\njk4371@columbia.edu\n\n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/lessons-from-covid-19-for-chinese-governance-and-state-society-relations/
LOCATION:WEAI Conference Room (IAB 918)
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SUMMARY:In the Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan
DESCRIPTION:This talk unearths an immensely creative yet almost entirely overlooked body of Japanese art. Drawn from Volk’s recently published In the Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan\, and introducing charismatic but little-known paitnings\, prints\, and sculpture made during the US occupation (1945-1952). It will show how the forgotten art of a country in the shadows of American empire both accommodated and resisted the Cold War global realignment that followed on the heels of World War II. Volk will reveal the transnational dimensions of early postwar Japanese artistic practices and show how they hold the potential for rethinking our histories of Japanese and global postware are alike. \nPreregistration required. Register HERE \n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/in-the-shadow-of-empire-art-in-occupied-japan/
LOCATION:403 Kent Hall\, 1140 Amsterdam Ave.\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tibetan Education: Theory & Praxis (Workshop)
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\nPLEASE NOTE: For non-Columbia guests\, registration is required to access the Morningside campus 24 hours prior to the event. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event). Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by Friday\, April 10 for campus access. \nTibetan education is a topic of critical importance and its practice is profoundly transnational. This workshop brings leading scholars of Tibetan education as it is practiced in the People’s Republic of China and the diaspora\, together with New York-based and other Tibetan educators working to further education in Tibetan language and cultural traditions. Themes of indigenous Land/environmental education\, intergenerational transmission of ancestral knowledge\, cultural preservation\, language education\, home-education\, community-based learning\, innovation and identity will be discussed in relation to their application in curriculum development and hands-on teaching/learning. We hope you will join us in these discussions! \nModerator: Lauran Hartley\, Director\, Modern Tibetan Studies Program; Adjunct Assistant Professor in Tibetan Literature\, Columbia University \nSpeakers: \n\nTashi Dekyid Monet\, Columbia University\nShamo Thar\, University of Massachussets Amherst\nTsepakjab Washul\, University of Virginia\nStuart Wright\, University of Sheffield\nChime Dolma\, YindaYin Coaching\nYumten Rinchen Tara\, YindaYin Coaching\n\nThis event is sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Modern Tibetan Studies Program. \n\n\n\nContact Information\nLauran Hartley\nmtspdirector@columbia.edu\n\n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/tibetan-education-theory-praxis-workshop/
LOCATION:148 Horace Mann\, 525 W 120th St\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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SUMMARY:One Boat\, Many Islands: Indigeneity\, Solidarity\, and Resistance in Contemporary Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nFor non-Columbia affiliates\, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00 pm on Apr. 23 for campus access. \nNames will be submitted for QR codes 1-2 days prior to the event. Registrants will receive an email from CU Guest Access with the QR code before or on the day of the event. NOTE: You cannot access campus using the QR code from Eventbrite. \nSpeaker: Nicolai Volland\, Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature\, Penn State University \nModerator: Ying Qian\, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Columbia University \nWhat does it mean to think and act across ethnic lines? Over the past decade\, some of Taiwan’s most critically acclaimed writers have proposed to understand Indigenous histories and identities not in isolation from each other\, but as evolving\, intertwined\, and dialogic processes. In this presentation\, Dr. Volland will focus on recent work by Syaman Rapongan and Wu Ming-yi and show how their writing pushes discourses of/about Indigeneity\, in Taiwan and beyond\, in new and unexpected directions. \nSpeaker’s Bio: Nicolai Volland’s work focuses on modern Chinese literature in its transnational dimensions\, Sinophone literature\, Taiwan literature\, and archipelagic/oceanic studies. He is the author Socialist Cosmopolitanism: The Chinese Literary Universe\, 1945-1965 (Columbia University Press\, 2017)\, a title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute series\, and he is currently completing a monograph called Modern Chinese Literature and the Sea. He serves as executive editor for Taiwan Lit and the Global Sinophere\, and is a past president of the Association for Chinese and Comparative Literature (ACCL). \nThis event is part of the Andrew J. Nathan Taiwan Lecture Series and hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. \nRegistration: \n\nTo attend this event in-person\, please register HERE.\nTo attend this event online\, please register HERE.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nContact Information\nJulie Kwan\njk4371@columbia.edu\n\n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/one-boat-many-islands-indigeneity-solidarity-and-resistance-in-contemporary-taiwan/
LOCATION:WEAI Conference Room (IAB 918)
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SUMMARY:CTLgrads Office Hours (for Graduate Students)
DESCRIPTION:\nWe invite current Columbia graduate students with questions about maintaining an inclusive teaching environment and all other aspects of pedagogy to drop by office hours on Fridays from 2:00–4:00 pm. We also welcome conversations about CTL fellowships\, programs\, services\, job market preparation\, and making progress in the Teaching Development Program (tdp.ctl.columbia.edu). \nNo appointment is necessary; you can join us in-person in 212 Butler Library\, or via Zoom. To join office hours via Zoom\, email CTLgrads@columbia.edu to obtain the link. \nLearn more about what you can expect in office hours here: https://ctl.columbia.edu/graduate-instructors/programs-for-graduate-students/office-hours/ \nIf you can’t make office hours but want support\, you can request an individual consultation at http://bit.ly/ctl-gradconsult or email us at CTLgrads@columbia.edu. \n\n\nEvent Contact Information: \nCTLgrads\nCTLgrads@columbia.edu\n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/ctlgrads-office-hours-for-graduate-students-30/2026-04-24/
LOCATION:212 Butler Library\, 535 W 114th St\, New York\, NY\, 10027
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SUMMARY:Seo-Ye (Korean Calligraphy) Workshop
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URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/seo-ye-korean-calligraphy-workshop/
LOCATION:Kent 522C
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SUMMARY:Daughter of the Light (2024): Film Screening & Discussion
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaughter of the Light (2024) | Official Trailer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a screening of Daughter of the Light (2024)\, a deeply moving feature documentary by Tibetan filmmaker Khashem Gyal. The film follows a thirteen-year-old girl named Metok as she navigates the emotional complexities of her parents’ divorce in a rural town\, set against the backdrop of generational and social change. A panel discussion will follow the screening. \nThis event is part of the Asia in Action series and is presented in conjunction with the Tibetan Education Workshop on April 24\, 2026. \nSpeaker: \nKhashem Gyal\, Adjunct Assistant Professor\, Columbia School of the Arts\, Asia in Action Fellow\, Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, Columbia University \nModerator:\nRon Gregg\, Film and Media Studies\, Columbia School of the Arts \nDiscussant:\nNelson Walker\, Maysles Documentary Center \nThis event is hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and co-sponsored by the Modern Tibetan Studies Program\, Film and Media Studies at the School of the Arts\, and the C.V. Starr East Asian Library. \n\n\n\nContact Information\nHiba Rashid\nhr2577@columbia.edu\n\n\nREGISTER\n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/daughter-of-the-light-2024-film-screening-discussion/
LOCATION:Lenfest Center for the Arts\, 615 W. 129th street\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260428T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260428T140000
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SUMMARY:Tuning Into the Occupation: Radio and Media Policy in Postwar Okinawa and Japan
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nFor non-Columbia affiliates\, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00 pm on Apr. 27 for campus access. \nNames will be submitted for QR codes 1-2 days prior to the event. Registrants will receive an email from CU Guest Access with the QR code before or on the day of the event. NOTE: You cannot access campus using the QR code from Eventbrite. \nSpeaker: Akinobu Matsumoto\, Junior Researcher at the Faculty of Letters\, Arts and Sciences\, Waseda University; WEAI Visiting Scholar (2025-2026) \nModerator: Takuya Tsunoda\, Assistant Professor of Japanese Film and Media\, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Columbia University \nHow has the media shaped the way people think? This talk explores radio programming in U.S.-occupied Okinawa during the early Cold War\, focusing on two individuals involved in radio production. Taking a transnational perspective\, it situates Okinawa within the broader context of mainland Japan\, revealing how ideas\, formats\, and radio production skills circulated across borders in the postwar period. \nSpeaker’s Bio:  Akinobu Matsumoto is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Letters\, Arts and Sciences\, Waseda University\, and a JSPS Cross-border postdoctoral research fellow. Over the years\, he has conducted research at Harvard University and the University of Maryland\, examining the role of media practitioners and the political functions of broadcasting formats in postwar and Cold War East Asia through archival research. Drawing on his experience as a television documentary director\, his work bridges journalism and media history. \nThis event is hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. \nRegistration: To attend this event in-person\, please register HERE (with one unique email address per registrant). \n\n\n\n\n\n\nContact Information\nJulie Kwan\njk4371@columbia.edu\n\n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/tuning-into-the-occupation-radio-and-media-policy-in-postwar-okinawa-and-japan/
LOCATION:WEAI Conference Room (IAB 918)
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SUMMARY:Rethinking "Nature" in Japanese Literature and Culture
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URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/rethinking-nature-in-japanese-literature-and-culture/
LOCATION:403 Kent Hall\, 1140 Amsterdam Ave.\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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SUMMARY:“All Men Are Strangers”: The Failure of Peripatetic Rulership and the Birth of the Private Self
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSui Emperor Yang is a notorious “bad last ruler” in Chinese history. His Grand Canal project\, his establishment of multiple capitals\, and his frequent tours throughout the realm are traditionally regarded as acts of extravagance and self-indulgence. This talk\, which is part of my forthcoming book Writing Empire and Self: Poetic and Cultural Transformation in Early Medieval China\, argues that imperial mobility was an effective strategy for creating a cohesive polity out of the multipolar world of the late Northern and Southern Dynasties\, and that its discontinuation in fact contributed to Sui’s downfall. Examining how the Sui rulers’ strenuous efforts at establishing a coherent polity through building a national transportation and communication network are belied by the failure of peripatetic rulership and by a pervasive sense of blockage and displacement voiced by Sui courtiers in their private poems\, this talk shows that poetic articulation of fragmentation directly contradicts the state’s construction of infrastructural coherence. The split between private and public created a space for the discourse of a private self that could not be co- opted into the imperial system by the state. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker \nXiaofei Tian is Ford Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies at Harvard. Born in the city of Harbin in 1971\, she graduated from Peking University in 1989 and obtained PhD in Comparative Literature at Harvard University in 1998.  After teaching at Colgate University and Cornell University\, she joined Harvard EALC in 2000. While her main teaching and research area is Chinese literature and cultural history of the Middle Period (first through thirteenth century CE)\, she has also taught and published on late imperial and modern literature and culture. Her interest in poetry and poetics\, the mediality of literature\, court culture\, and Chinese literature’s complex negotiations with Buddhism has been driving much of her work. Her book Tao Yuanming and Manuscript Culture (a Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2006) examines how scribes\, editors\, readers\, and commentators participated in constructing the image of the iconic poet. Another book\, Beacon Fire and Shooting Star: The Literary Culture of the Liang (502–557)\, contextualizes the splendid court literature of a much maligned period in Chinese history and proposes the emergence of a new poetics informed by the Buddhist view of the phenomenal world. Her book in Chinese on the great sixteenth-century novel The Plum in the Golden Vase (秋水堂論金瓶梅) \, reprinted many times since its first publication\, explores the Buddhist vision embodied in the narrative of the novel’s Chongzhen recension\, and argues for an awareness of the cultural politics and ideological choices embedded in modern scholarship. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/all-men-are-strangers-the-failure-of-peripatetic-rulership-and-the-birth-of-the-private-self/
LOCATION:Calder Lounge\, Uris Hall\, 3022 Broadway\, New York\, NY 100273022 Broadway\, New York\, 10027\, United States
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SUMMARY:Syllabus from Scratch (for Graduate Students)
DESCRIPTION:\nAre you drafting a syllabus? Whether the syllabus is for the Teaching Scholars program\, the academic job market\, or a dream course in the future\, join us to begin designing an effective\, student-centered syllabus from scratch. \nDuring this Syllabus from Scratch workshop\, participants will learn about the elements of an effective syllabus\, define course learning goals\, and discuss assessments that can promote student learning in their course. \nFacilitated by Kelsey Reeder\, Senior Teaching Consultant at the Center for Teaching and Learning. \nNote: This session was originally scheduled for Friday\, May 8 from 12:10-2:00pm. \nBy the end of the session\, participants should be able to:\n– Define and create course-level learning goals and measurable outcomes for each\n– Design assignments/assessments to evaluate student learning\n– Create intentional assessments that align with course learning goals \nThis workshop counts as a Pedagogy Workshop for participants enrolled in the Teaching Development Program. \n\nColumbia University makes every effort to accommodate individuals with disabilities. Contact ColumbiaCTL@columbia.edu or 212.854.1692 for accommodations. \nThis event may be photographed. Note\, if this is an online event\, CTL staff may take screenshots. For concerns\, contact ColumbiaCTL@columbia.edu. \n\n\nEvent Contact Information: \nCTLgrads\nCTLgrads@columbia.edu\n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/syllabus-from-scratch-for-graduate-students-6/
LOCATION:212 Butler Library\, 535 W 114th St\, New York\, NY\, 10027
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SUMMARY:CTLgrads Office Hours (for Graduate Students)
DESCRIPTION:\nWe invite current Columbia graduate students with questions about maintaining an inclusive teaching environment and all other aspects of pedagogy to drop by office hours on Fridays from 2:00–4:00 pm. We also welcome conversations about CTL fellowships\, programs\, services\, job market preparation\, and making progress in the Teaching Development Program (tdp.ctl.columbia.edu). \nNo appointment is necessary; you can join us in-person in 212 Butler Library\, or via Zoom. To join office hours via Zoom\, email CTLgrads@columbia.edu to obtain the link. \nLearn more about what you can expect in office hours here: https://ctl.columbia.edu/graduate-instructors/programs-for-graduate-students/office-hours/ \nIf you can’t make office hours but want support\, you can request an individual consultation at http://bit.ly/ctl-gradconsult or email us at CTLgrads@columbia.edu. \n\n\nEvent Contact Information: \nCTLgrads\nCTLgrads@columbia.edu\n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/ctlgrads-office-hours-for-graduate-students-30/2026-05-01/
LOCATION:212 Butler Library\, 535 W 114th St\, New York\, NY\, 10027
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260501T173000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260325T162059Z
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SUMMARY:“Forklift Disease”: The Making of an Occupational Illness in Postwar Japan
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nFor non-Columbia affiliates\, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00 pm on Apr. 30 for campus access. \nNames will be submitted for QR codes 1-2 days prior to the event. Registrants will receive an email from CU Guest Access with the QR code before or on the day of the event. NOTE: You cannot access campus using the QR code from Eventbrite. \nSpeaker: Victor Seow\, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences\, Department of History of Science\, Harvard University \nDiscussant: Eugenia Y. Lean\, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs; Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, East Asian Langs & Cultures\, Columbia University \nModerator: Kavita Sivaramakrishnan\, Co-Director\, History Center\, Sociomedical Sciences\, Mailman School of Public Health\, Columbia University Medical Center \nThis paper uses the case of “forklift disease” (fōkurifuto-byō) in postwar Japan to explore how occupational illness came to be conceived and contested in an era of logistical capitalism. Emerging in the port city of Kobe in the late 1960s\, forklift disease referred to a cluster of concurrent ailments from lower back pain to gastrointestinal trouble reported by dockworkers who had shifted from hook-and-rope cargo handling to operating gasoline and later diesel forklifts on newly paved wharves. The paper reconstructs how labor activists\, physicians\, and engineers framed these complaints as a distinctive work-related disorder that stemmed from the bodily burdens of mechanized cargo handling. Forklift disease would soon travel beyond Kobe\, spurring further medical investigations at other Japanese ports\, experiments with seat and suspension design\, and epidemiological studies on whole-body vibration. By the 1980s\, the diagnostic label was increasingly eclipsed by international categories of vibration-related musculoskeletal disorder\, even as the underlying injuries persisted and expanded to new groups of logistic workers. By situating this trajectory within concurrent developments in port labor relations\, containerization\, and state regulation of industrial health\, this paper shows how postwar Japan’s pursuit of industrial rationalization reshaped both dockside workscapes and the diagnosis terrain of occupational disease. \nSpeaker’s Bio: Victor Seow is a historian of science and technology\, focusing on China and Japan in their global contexts. His research explores how technological artifacts\, scientific knowledge\, and forces of production intersect in shaping economic life and environmental outcomes. He is the author of Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (University of Chicago Press)\, a study of the relationship between energy and power in the industrial age. At present\, he is completing his next book\, The Human Factor: How Chinese Psychologists Reimagined the Science of Work in the Machine Age. His work has been recognized with several awards\, most recently the Sarton Prize for the History of Science from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nThis event is hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and co-sponsored by the History Center at the Mailman School of Public Health\, Columbia University Medical Center. \nRegistration: \n\nTo attend this event in-person\, please register HERE.\nTo attend this event online\, please register HERE.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nContact Information\nJulie Kwan\njk4371@columbia.edu\n\n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/forklift-disease-the-making-of-an-occupational-illness-in-postwar-japan/
LOCATION:WEAI Conference Room (IAB 918)
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SUMMARY:Beut Eum Hwa Semester End Gala
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URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/beut-eum-hwa-semester-end-gala/
LOCATION:569 Lerner Hall\, 2920 Broadway\, New York City\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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SUMMARY:TDP Preparing to Teach: Material Prep Session (for Grad Students)
DESCRIPTION:\nIn order to successfully complete a track in the Teaching Development Program (TDP)\, participants need to generate and annotate two important documents: a policy sheet and first day plan. The TDP Preparing to Teach: Material Prep Session is a new offering in the TDP\, designed to help participants create these documents for the Preparing to Teach assignment (required for the successful completion of the TDP Foundational Track). \nThough first day plans and policy sheets are useful for TAs and instructors preparing for early teaching assignments\, TDP participants often hesitate to draft and upload them to the TDP site. If you’re in a similar situation\, looking for more support and guidance on these documents\, and/or want to develop these materials in community with fellow graduate students and CTL staff\, we invite you to come to this session. Highlights of this offering include: \n\nAn introduction to the purpose and structure of policy sheets and first day of class plans\nAn opportunity to see and discuss exemplary sample materials\nDedicated time for active drafting one or both documents\, with the goal of making tangible progress toward completing the Preparing to Teach assignment\nA supportive environment for receiving constructive feedback from peers and CTL staff\n\nIn addition to facilitating completion of the TDP Preparing to Teach requirement\, this workshop also counts as a Pedagogy Workshop in the TDP. \n— \nColumbia University makes every effort to accommodate individuals with disabilities. Contact ColumbiaCTL@columbia.edu or 212.854.1692 for accommodations. \nThis event may be photographed. Note\, if this is an online event\, CTL staff may take screenshots. For concerns\, contact ColumbiaCTL@columbia.edu. \n\n\nEvent Contact Information: \nCTLgrads\nCTLgrads@columbia.edu\n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/tdp-preparing-to-teach-material-prep-session-for-grad-students/
LOCATION:212 Butler Library\, 535 W 114th St\, New York\, NY\, 10027
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